This morning the last two participants in our SEED Engineering mentoring
term for Israel and Russia were matched. This term had one of the shortest
cycle times ever for mentor matching: just 3 weeks to match 33 participants.
70% of the mentors are
executives: 6 Vice Presidents (including one VP/Fellow, one VP/DE,
and one Executive VP), and 17 Directors (including 5 DEs – Distinguished
Engineers).
SEED held a call in world-wide meeting on Wednesday and it was a delight to
hear the voices from St. Petersburg, Herzliya, Prague, Hamburg, Dublin,
Bangalore, two locations in France, and all over the USA. The talks by
Sun CTO
Greg Papadopoulos and Sun Fellow Bob Sproull
were excellent. Some of Greg’s content can be seen in the eWeek article
“Sun CTO: Open Services the Next Big Thing”.
SEED is in its first week of the application period for the term
to benefit legacy StorageTek staff. There are 11 applications so far.
We held our first call-in overview-and-question meeting on Thursday.
There is another scheduled for next week. We have set the date for
the Selection Committee to meet. All application materials are due
on 24 March. The selection announcement will be made on 30 March.
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